Review. Understanding English as a Lingua Franca, Barbara Seidlhofer

Baker, Will (2012) Review. Understanding English as a Lingua Franca, Barbara Seidlhofer.International Journal of Applied Linguistics

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Barbara Seidlhofer was recently described at the 4th International ELF(English as a lingua Franca) conference as one of the ‘founding mothers’of ELF studies. Her seminal 2001 paper on ELF, along with a small numberof other studies (e.g. Jenkins 2000), set the foundation for much subsequentwork in the field. In particular this paper drew attention to the conceptual gapbetween applied linguistics research on the English language, which focusedon a narrow range of varieties of ‘native speaker’ English, and the ‘reality’ ofEnglish as it is used by the majority of its ‘non-native speakers’. Therefore, herfirst monograph on the subject has been much anticipated.